CVE-2023-40303
HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: August 14, 2023 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 06:17 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorInetutils
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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
Description
GNU inetutils before 2.5 may allow privilege escalation because of unchecked return values of set*id() family functions in ftpd, rcp, rlogin, rsh, rshd, and uucpd. This is, for example, relevant if the setuid system call fails when a process is trying to drop privileges before letting an ordinary user control the activities of the process.
Remediation
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References (5)
ExploitMailing ListPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2023-07/msg00000.htmlCVSS
- Attack Vector
- LOCAL
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- LOW
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-252
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